I must admit, part of me was really hoping that the list of names on Coca-Cola's new 'personalised' bottles would include mine. Alas it wasn't to be – though I am impressed that Coke has given me the option to personalise a bottle ...
Speaking exclusively to Packaging News, Ball Europe Packaging Europe president Colin?Gillis said: "The London Metal Exchange [LME] sets the price for aluminium. The parties who set the premiums for shipping and warehousing have raised the ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Digital printing
UBM Canon Packaging Group announced the winners of the inaugural Visionary Awards the evening of June 19. The gala event, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, was held in conjunction with the AmeriStar Package Awards and EastPack ...
Tags: Packaging&Printing, Packaging Industry, Visionary Awards
A new front-of-pack food label that has the support of big brands, health groups and all the major supermarkets was launched yesterday. Food sold in packaging will be colour coded according to a red, amber and green scheme to show how ...
Tags: food label, label, Packaging, Printing
Among the highlights at EastPack will be two packaging awards: one well-established, one brand-new. The AmeriStar awards from the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) have honored the most innovative packages every year since 1945. ...
Two giant private equity groups, Blackstone and Carlyle, are among companies believed to be preparing bids for cartons giant Chesapeake, according to media reports. The Sunday Times (19 May) reported that Blackstone and Carlyle are ...
Tags: US, Chesapeake, Packaging
Recent graduates of the PIABC Diploma in Packaging Technology and newly-accredited packaging professionals are set to receive their diplomas in a ceremony at the Total show tomorrow More than 100 packaging practitioners have recently ...
Demand for plastic packaging rose in the UK last year, helped by the food and beverage industry, according to a new survey. Figures from industry body Plastics Europe, of which the British Plastics Federation (BPF) is a member, showed ...
Top industry speakers from big names, including Marks & Spencer and B&Q, will be descending on Birmingham's NEC next month to take part in the Total Processing and Packaging Exhibition's seminar programme. The show runs from 4-6 June and ...
UBM Canon's Packaging Group, which includes Packaging Digest, celebrating 50 years as The Voice of the Packaging Community, and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, celebrating 20 years of healthcare product packaging coverage, ...
The campaign, which is running in national newspapers and magazines, features a print-out of an email obtained by JTI in which an unnamed official at the Department of Health requests an impact assessment from an Australian counterpart of ...
Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
Tags: Industry Chiefs, Packaging, Chancellor
The system is aimed at measuring out an exact dosage of liquid from a container and targets the pharmaceutical and household products sectors. The Bark Dosing System was also a winner at the 2012 UK Packaging Awards. Teamplast was up ...
The programme has covered 31 local authorities and, according Rick Hindley, executive director of the scheme’s programme managers Alupro, MetalMatters has been aided by the combination of the public and private sector. The programme ...
Point-of-sale and in-store marketing group Bezier has gone into administration just a week after it lost a £10m contract with Boots, Packaging News can confirm Administrators from financial services group Deloitte were appointed to ...